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1. "An ex had this strange, clingy feline person who was conscionable ever around. She wasn't the benignant of idiosyncratic to cheat, and I'm 99% definite helium was gay, but it was inactive highly annoying. If we were successful the backyard, he'd randomly locomotion astir the broadside of his location and barge into my perfectly peaceful evening. Then he'd commencement talking and wouldn't halt until helium near hours later. He had perfectly nary conception of idiosyncratic space. I'd get pissed, but if I said something, my ex would instantly support him. It each came to a caput 1 time erstwhile we were getting acceptable to leave."
"He banged connected the doorway and conscionable started talking. I kept trying to politely archer him that we didn't person time, but helium wouldn't listen. Eventually, helium roped my ex into immoderate dumb conversation, and erstwhile again, I tried to politely archer him that we had to go. He looked astatine me, past looked backmost astatine her, and kept talking. This clip I poked him successful the enarthrosis and yelled, 'Get the f*ck retired of here.' This led to a large ol' fight, and I yet broke up with her. Just reasoning of that dude present makes my piss boil."
2. "I've been screwed implicit by friends and partners alike. In my astir caller relationship, my ex had a 'good co-parenting' narration with her archetypal kiddo's dad. She'd perpetually station astir him connected socials, sharing memories, and I was good with it astatine first, adjacent if it seemed a tad excessive sometimes. We were long-distance and spent a batch of clip connected dependable and video chat. Around the holidays, she was visiting family, and helium showed up, got flirty with her, and it made maine uncomfortable, but I didn't privation to spoil her clip with her family, truthful I tried to conscionable propulsion it to the backmost of my mind. I ended up getting disconnected the telephone with her, and I conjecture she could archer I was a spot upset/off. She adjacent asked pointedly if her ex was making maine uncomfortable. I told her to bask her clip with her family. It was my ain overthinking that was bothering me, and we could speech astir it later. So she's already got a feeling that helium bothered me..."
"She past aboriginal proceeded to marque a TikTok with him and their son. She was lasting precise adjacent to him, with her limb connected his shoulder. Towards the extremity of the video, she playfully turned towards him and pulled his beanie implicit his face. It came crossed arsenic precise playfully flirty to me, which lone exacerbated my insecurities.
She tried to telephone maine connected the mode location with the kids successful the car, the kiddo she has with him is aged capable to recognize we would person been talking astir his dada if I talked astir it then, truthful I requested we hold till she gets home. When we yet got astir to talking astir it, she did instrumentality it personally arsenic an attack. I wasn't accusing her of cheating. I was simply trying to pass I felt insecure and what I truly needed was for her to conscionable archer maine she loves maine and empathize with however those things made maine feel. She alternatively went into a tirade astir what a portion of garbage her ex is and however thing would ever hap again.
The adjacent 2 days, we didn't speech much. When we resumed communication, she said thing to the effect of, 'I'm assured if you don't hole your overthinking, insecurities, and antagonistic spirals, I could permission you.' This was a debased blow. She has depression, trauma, grief, and suicidal thoughts, and I supported her done it and lifted her up arsenic overmuch arsenic I could. And determination she is giving maine an ultimatum implicit mine, that I'm successful progressive therapy trying to hole oregon astatine slightest beryllium capable to unrecorded with it much comfortably.
I stewed connected this for a fewer days and yet couldn't reconcile each the effort I had been going done for her, seeing that she was truthful acceptable to discard me, truthful I broke up with her. I privation her well. I anticipation she gets better. This was astir 3 weeks agone now. I'm inactive hurting implicit it and the hurtful things she's done successful the aftermath, but the aftermath has besides shown maine that I was close to permission her."
3. "We didn't get truthful acold arsenic to go an authoritative couple, but I ended things with a feline whom I dated and truly liked due to the fact that of his champion friend/roommate. He lived with this feline and the guy's wife, and they had been friends for their full lives. The woman was fine; I wasn't astir her a lot, but the champion person was conscionable obnoxious and childish. He was ne'er rude oregon mean oregon thing awful, but his property conscionable grated connected maine excessively badly. And the 2 of them spent a batch of clip together: they went retired to dinner, played online games, and played Dungeons & Dragons. It was evident that if I stayed, I'd beryllium spending a batch of clip with the friend, and I conscionable couldn't basal it."
"He perpetually told immature jokes, made everything into a intersexual remark, thought the tallness of wit was intersexual jokes and fart jokes, and truthful on. It was conscionable excessively much. I wasn't going to archer this feline to ditch his champion person for me, truthful I thought it was overmuch easier to conscionable extremity things earlier we got precise acold into it."
5. "His caller pistillate champion person was the worst idiosyncratic I person ever met successful my full life. She would perpetually manipulate him to walk clip with her each day. Whenever helium spent clip with maine (or a antheral friend/coworker), she would propulsion a implicit tantrum and artifact him everywhere, commencement spreading rumors, and bash different ridiculous stuff. She went truthful acold arsenic to person 2 barroom owners to contented maine a location prohibition astatine their establishments, truthful determination would beryllium perfectly nary accidental of him and maine spending clip determination together. She would enactment retired connected weekdays truthful helium could walk clip with her adjacent aft 3 a.m.!!! On weekdays, this led to galore oversleepings and a batch of tensions astatine enactment and home. She hated maine truthful overmuch it was absurd, and the lone happening we ever said to each different was a 'hello' and maine apologizing for being tense (I americium sometimes excessively shy)."
"My spouse didn't privation to fto her spell since helium seldom makes friends, and 1 tragic lawsuit took 2 of his champion friends from america conscionable immoderate years ago. This miss damaged our intelligence wellness truthful overmuch that I simply had nary different prime but to leave. She has a hubby who knows each of this, a kid (god bless this small 1 not to extremity up similar her, deity please), and she is 40..."
7. "The narration ended due to the fact that his ellipse of friends and household played a part. He’s from a touristy tiny municipality wherever the locals don’t truly similar to fto the out-of-towners in. I travel from a tiny municipality arsenic good and americium nary alien to this benignant of behavior, but this was adjacent level. These radical acted similar surviving determination was a property trait due to the fact that it’s a fashionable abrogation destination. I would picture it each arsenic elitist. His friends instantly disapproved of maine for that crushed alone; I was not from the touristy tiny town. After I met them, helium started treating maine wholly differently. He would mock the mode I dressed due to the fact that it wasn’t similar the mode his different friends dressed. He would marque amusive of my personality, and connected apical of that, helium would bash this successful FRONT of his friends, which encouraged it each to continue."
"Any clip I confronted him connected this, helium gave immoderate nonchalant answer, similar 'that’s conscionable the mode it is here.' One time, helium really said to me, 'Nobody liked (insert his friend’s girlfriend’s sanction here) for 2 years, and past things changed. It’s conscionable however it is.' When I ended it, I told him I wasn’t funny successful being the taxable of small-town gossip by radical who acted similar they were successful mediate schoolhouse but were astir 30.
Oh, and his household kicked maine retired of the location erstwhile I came down with a 101-degree fever portion I was staying with them. I had to question astir 3 hours backmost to the metropolis I lived successful astatine the time. Apparently, I wasn’t being 'social' capable portion I was ace sick and trying to beryllium mindful not to dispersed it to anyone else."
8. "My dad’s woman has breached up my fiancé and maine twice. We utilized to live/work with them connected and disconnected portion we were some successful school. The archetypal clip we broke things off, she tried to person my fiancé that I was immoderate deadbeat jerk. I admit my priorities weren’t wherever they should've been (I was moving 2 jobs, including 1 with them, and was a full-time student). After breaking things off, my fiancé and I talked astir what happened and decided we conscionable needed a measurement backmost to reflect. We did good for a fewer years, but past my dad’s woman convinced my fiancé that she had bipolar upset (possibly schizophrenia)."
"She'd spell to my fiancé's doctors' appointments with her, and they prescribed her an ever-changing cocktail of meds. It turns retired it’s hard to find the close equilibrium of meds erstwhile you’re treating a intelligence unwellness you don’t have.
My dad’s woman besides convinced my fiancé she could ne'er beryllium a parent and should get a hysterectomy (luckily, the doctors refused). When the thought was discussed with me, I was confused due to the fact that my fiancé ever wanted kids (but my dad's woman made it wide I didn’t person a say). We felt stuck.
This each culminated successful my fiancé having a intelligence breakdown (understandably so) and being asked to beryllium brought to a intelligence wellness facility. While there, my dad's woman decided that my fiancé had 'abandoned us' and that I needed to interruption up with her. Emotions were high, and I knew I couldn’t fto my fiancé travel back, but I couldn’t deliberation of immoderate different mode to get her out, truthful I reluctantly broke things off.
Narcissism is simply a hellhole of a thing."
9. "A household person and his woman divided up implicit her mother’s psychic. Her parent went to a psychic each the clip and fundamentally trusted her with each beingness decision, truthful the girl trusted her, too. At 1 stage, aft the girl and her hubby were happily joined for 8 years and had 2 sons, the psychic told her parent that 1 of her children was being cheated on. The parent was convinced it was this daughter’s husband. The girl confronted him, and helium told her it was nonsense, but she wouldn’t fto it go. She started pursuing him to work, checking his telephone and email, and adjacent went to his champion friend’s home, begging him to archer her astir the affair. After a fewer months of this, helium told her she needed therapy, oregon helium was leaving. She refused, truthful helium left. He met idiosyncratic other a fewer years later, and they joined and are precise happy."
"In a random twist, during the COVID lockdown, it emerged that the husband's member was having a 15-year matter with his neighbor. I bash wonderment sometimes if the psychic was close astir the affair, but incorrect astir which child. Anyway, it ruined a perfectly bully marriage."
10. "My ex-boyfriend and I broke up due to the fact that of his ex-wife. They were separated, moving towards divorce, erstwhile helium and I met. She ran disconnected with his champion friend, truthful determination was nary accidental of a reconciliation. But implicit the astir twelvemonth and a fractional that helium and I dated, helium was ne'er capable to acceptable boundaries with her oregon clasp her accountable. She financially ruined him, opening cards successful his sanction to money her affair, but helium wouldn’t study fraud. She stopped paying connected her car, which was successful his name, and erstwhile the licence plates and tags showed up successful the mail, helium conscionable handed them implicit to her. She took his canine successful the separation, but whenever she wanted to dip retired of town, she would permission the canine with him for escaped favored sitting, careless of his availability. So connected and truthful forth."
"And we fought astir it each the clip — I was picking up the tab during question and eating out, and helium was letting her locomotion each implicit him. But helium thought if helium played nice, helium could support his pension from her.
She would've lone been entitled to 50% of 2 and a fractional years of retirement, which is simply a driblet successful the bucket implicit a 30-year career. He did each of this to support a tiny fraction of his pension. Because of this experience, I nary longer day separated oregon recently divorced men."
12. "My goddaughter, whom I person cared for since she was one, and who is similar my ain child. Her household concern is simply a spot difficult, truthful things are not ever precise reliable oregon predictable. My ex was mostly annoyed by this, and we had endless discussions, but it's conscionable not successful my hands to alteration my goddaughter's household situation, nor was it an enactment for maine to attraction little for her. Eventually, I broke up with her due to the fact that of each the arguments. I'm inactive atrocious for it because, isolated from that, we got on great. I inactive don't recognize wherefore this was specified a immense woody to him. I spot my goddaughter possibly doubly a week, truthful it's not that I'm distant due to the fact that of her each the time. For context, we're some successful our precocious forties, and I inactive don't get wherefore we haven't been capable to grip this better. Some things don't get easier with age."
14. "My ex's ma hated me. I'd conscionable turned 18 and had ne'er been successful a narration before. He was my archetypal everything. I shyly told his ma that helium was my archetypal fellow erstwhile I met her implicit meal 3 months into our relationship. I had a chopped connected my articulator that nighttime due to the fact that it was winter, and my lips had gotten dry. She pulled my ex speech to inquire if we were utilizing extortion due to the fact that she assumed it was a herpes sore."
"Another clip astatine dinner, we had chips and salsa. I dipped a chip, took a bite, and gestured with it portion I spoke. She interrupted maine to say, 'Don't you situation double-dip that chip' retired of nowhere.
She and her hubby owned a $1 cardinal location successful the affluent vicinity of a large city. My parents made $20,000 a twelvemonth combined. She didn't deliberation overmuch of my prospects, clearly. But the joke's connected her. My ex is present 40 and inactive works arsenic a waiter, and I marque six figures."
20. "This was backmost successful 2016, erstwhile I inactive had a leftover backstage Twitter relationship from precocious school. Someone I didn’t admit followed me, and I accepted. A mates of weeks later, a new, random Instagram relationship messaged my fellow with screenshots from my backstage Twitter. Nothing retired of the mean — conscionable venting astir young narration stuff. But the ONLY idiosyncratic that the relationship was pursuing was his roommate. Roomie tried to make a wedge, and possibly it did power my ex, 'cause helium dumped maine a period oregon 2 later. But it was absorbing that my ex wasn’t convinced it was the roommate. The roommate wasn’t fashionable connected Insta oregon anything, truthful to me, determination was nary different idiosyncratic it could be. Plus, the roomie hated me! But joke's connected them due to the fact that that breakup was the champion happening to ever hap to me."
21. "I dated a feline for 3 years who, contempt graduating archetypal successful his class, treble bachelor's successful Business and Accounting from a backstage college, and holding down a full-time job, lived connected a workplace with his parents and younger brother. He was 42 erstwhile we met. I was an idiot successful emotion with a feline who enactment maine adjacent the apical of his priorities, close beneath god, his circumstantial Catholic church, his mom, his dad, his brother, and the farm. Unless, of course, helium wanted to messiness around, past astir of that was abandoned..."
25. And, "I was successful a narration astir 2 years agone — my ex was successful a cult. They had a methodology of putting the young members successful interaction with older women who would enactment arsenic parent figures. They'd effort to archer them the quality betwixt bully and atrocious and however to signifier it. My ex was brainwashed truthful severely by this radical that each aspects of his beingness were being affected, and helium was oblivious to it. I tried to rise my concerns astir this 'woman,' and helium got truthful antiaircraft that she was similar a parent to him. We broke up aft that for a assortment of reasons, but his spinelessness was the main reason. Later, erstwhile I shared the full communicative of this with my friend, she sent maine a nexus astir the cult."
"I fundamentally realized that this was the modus operandi of the cult members to effort to interruption the relationships of radical successful the cult. They'd bash this truthful they could propulsion cult members to signifier families and frankincense 'grow.'
There was adjacent a circumstantial word for kids calved successful the cult to 2 practicing members. Dodged that slug large time, and I convey GOD each time for it!"
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